{"id":973,"date":"2015-02-28T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/?p=973"},"modified":"2015-02-28T12:03:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T12:03:47","slug":"how-to-fine-tune-your-productivity-on-chromebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/how-to-fine-tune-your-productivity-on-chromebook.htm","title":{"rendered":"How to fine-tune your productivity on Chromebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google’s operating system: Chromebook OS now has tons of tweaks, tools and customizations that let you tailor your Chromebook to your specific workflow needs.\u00a0Just like Windows or OS X, Google’s built additional functionality into Chrome OS’s app launcher, the taskbar-like shelf, window sizing, and other functions to help you stay productive. Following\u00a0tips compiled by Australia leading laptop batteries supplier<\/a>: BattAussie’s Chromebook experts will show you how to make the most of those tools and start getting stuff done on your Chromebook.<\/p>\n

Customize app launcher<\/h3>\n

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\nExerting order on the randomness of the Chrome OS app launcher can also streamline your workflow. Customize the app arrangement in the launcher by clicking and holding on an app and then moving it.\u00a0You can also move around the icons and bundle them together in folders, just as you would on an Android device or iPhone. If there are several different apps that you use from the launcher instead of the shelf, this is a great way to find them faster.<\/p>\n

Snap windows on the left & right<\/h3>\n

Just like the Windows Snap feature that came out in Windows 7, you can dock two separate windows on the left and right sides of the screen for multitasking. It\u2019s great if you\u2019re editing spreadsheets, for instance, as you can update the Dell latitude d810 battery<\/a>\u00a0spreadsheet on one side of the screen and view source data on the other side. You can also assign different browser tabs to each half of the screen.\u00a0To snap a window to the left or right side of your Chromebook’s display, click and hold the title bar or tab, then simply drag it to the left or right edge of the screen.<\/p>\n

Arrange your shelf<\/h3>\n

The shelf has many of the features you may know from the Windows taskbar. You can even relocate it to the left or right side of the screen, though not the top. Just right-click it and choose your desired location.\u00a0The Chrome OS shelf also gives you some flexibility in how you launch apps. You can right-click an app and select to open it by default as a window, pinned tab, or full screen. For example, I tell Google Play Music to launch in a separate window so it acts like a standalone music application, such as Spotify or iTunes on other operating systems.<\/p>\n

Focus on your task by going full-screen<\/h3>\n

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\n<\/a>With a couple of tweaks you can focus on one task, such as writing in a Google Doc or Office Online file. For writing, I like to auto-hide the shelf and set the tab in full-screen so I can just focus on what I’m working on.\u00a0In Immersive mode, additional tabs are represented by horizontal bars along the top of the screen. Your shelf is represented by similar bars, so you can still switch between apps in Immersive mode if you don’t feel like using one of the many Chrome keyboard shortcuts.<\/p>\n

Search Gmail and Google Drive right from the omnibox<\/h3>\n

If you\u2019re searching Gmail or Google Drive often\u2014hey, you are using a Chromebook after all\u2014then this little trick will make you quicker. You can search these items right from the Chrome browser’s Omnibox. \u00a0Notice all the “Other search engines” already loaded into Chrome’s “Manage search engines” setting. You can perform the same steps to search within those sites, or add any site you’d like to quick-search using similar steps to those above.<\/p>\n

Above sort of extendability that makes Chromebooks strong enough to serve as your main laptop computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google’s operating system: Chromebook OS now has tons of tweaks, tools and customizations that let you tailor your Chromebook to your specific workflow needs.\u00a0Just like Windows or OS X, Google’s built additional functionality into Chrome OS’s app launcher, the taskbar-like shelf, window sizing, and other functions to help you stay productive. Following\u00a0tips compiled by Australia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6],"tags":[513,512,511],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-laptop-reviews","category-tech-info","tag-acer-aspire-3680-battery","tag-dell-latitude-d810-battery","tag-dell-latitude-e5410-battery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}